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Addressing in depth the reality that women of color, particularly black women, face compounded exploitation and economic inequality within the neoliberal university. More Black women are graduating with advanced degrees than ever before. Despite the fact that their educational and professional oppor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nzinga-Johnson, Sekile, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Series:Critical university studies.
Subjects:
African American women college teachers > Social conditions.
Minority women college teachers > United States > Social conditions.
African American women in higher education > Social conditions.
Minority women in higher education > United States > Social conditions.
Sex discrimination in higher education > United States.
Racism in higher education > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.
Professeures noires américaines (Enseignement supérieur) > Conditions sociales.
Femmes issues des minorités dans l'enseignement supérieur > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'enseignement supérieur > États-Unis.
Racisme dans l'enseignement supérieur > États-Unis.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Educational equalization
Racism in higher education
Sex discrimination in higher education
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The university as hyper-producer of inequity
  • 1. Mortgaging our brains: black women, privatization, and subprime PhDs
  • 2. Ain't I precarious? Black academic women as contingent
  • 3. Families devalued: black academic women and the neoliberal era's family tariff
  • 4. Jumping mountains: resisting the marketized university
  • Conclusion: Statement of solidarity
  • Appendix A. Our truths interview guide
  • Appendix B. Resources and organizations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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